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communities understand the purpose and
potential of project activities, and engage
with them in a manner they consider
appropriate and fair. The project shows
that new technologies can be usable and
relevant to local and indigenous peoples,
and the advantage of participative software
development, intuitive interfaces and testing prototypes in situ with the intended
users. The collaborative approach and
user-friendly technology allowed communities to appropriate the data collection
process and understand the maps they had
produced.
CONTACT DETAILS
Jerome Lewis
Lecturer in Anthropology and Co-Director of the
Environment Institute and Extreme Citizen
Science Research Group
University College London (UCL)
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
UK
Email: Jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
Téodyl Nkuintchua
Anthropologist
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
8 rue Francis de Croisset
Paris
France
Email: Nkuintchua@yahoo.fr
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